From cuneiform to computer keystrokes. Thus when digital technologies of reading and writing arose, soon thereafter people became intensely reflective about what had preceded them: books, paper, pens ...

In “The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting” (Bloomsbury, 192 pp., $26), Anne Trubek gives a compelling and entertaining history of humanity’s relationship to the physical act of writing, and ...

Would you recognize your friend’s handwriting? As technology becomes ubiquitous in communication culture, handwritten letters and notes are less and less common, replaced instead by emails and text ...

Herodotos (c.490–c.425 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460– c.399 BCE) were great Hellenic / Greek historians. They wrote during the fifth century BCE, about 700 years after Homer. The time of Herodotos and ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but the calligraphy belongs to Timothy Matlack, a beer-bottler from Pennsylvania. Source: Public Domain Image Sometimes modest subjects resound ...

THE witty remark of Dumas, that Lamartine had raised history to the dignity of romance, would have appealed to Thomas Buckle, who was much occupied with reducing it to the level of a science. Critics ...